Hawk Roosting

Cards (8)

  • “I sit on top of the wood, my eyes closed”
  • “It took the whole of creation to produce my foot”
  • “Between my hooked head and hooked feet”
  • “The allotment of death”
  • “I kill where I please as it is all mine”
  • “My manners are tearing off heads”
  • The poem Hawk Roosting, written by Ted Huges, is a direct monologue of a hawk who has a very solipsistic personality. It also has implications of dictators and political leaders of the time, suggesting how they all act in similar ways to this arrogant hawk.
  • The poem presents the Themes of : NATURE & NEGATIVE EMOTIONS